Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Herford

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Kin Hubbard

Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.

Michael Isikoff

Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.

Seth Lloyd

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.

We have identified a number of entities in North America that we feel the evidence will show are liable and culpable for the spamming that occurred.

Brigitte Nielsen

Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.

Breyten Breytenbach

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

Archibald MacLeish

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

Antoine Predock

It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

Anthony Sampson

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

Ben Mendelsohn

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

Ben Quayle

Everyone across America is tightening their belts. The only place it hasn't happened is D.C.

Barbara Lee

Recently, I was in Africa monitoring elections when right on the street, this guy started beating a woman. I got out of my car, pulled her inside and drove her to the hospital. But after the doctors treated her, she was too afraid to press charges. I've seen this over and over in America, too.

Barbara Jordan

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

Barbara Jordan

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

Bainbridge Colby

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

Ashthon Jones

I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

Cindy Sheehan

We're here to energize most of the people in America who are with us.

Ike Turner

We're having time to give the younger generation today inspiration. Regardless of the obstacles that you have to overcome, how you can make it?

Judith Martin

We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous, and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

This quicker and more efficient identification technology will contribute to a safer America.

There are very strong winds of change blowing through the continent of Latin America and they seem to be in somewhat of a left-ward direction.

Chevy Chase

There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.

Claudia Rankine

There are two worlds out there - two Americas out there. If you're a white person, there's one way of being a citizen in our country, and if you're a brown or a black body, there's another way of being a citizen, and that way is very close to death. It's very close to the loss of your life.

E. P. Thompson

There are two things people love in America: attention and money.

There are two things here, both are a hang-over from America.

There are those on the coasts that might snicker in their sleeves, but the town represents what many conservative people in the Midwest see as America, the America they want, the America they hold in their heads from yesterday. Maybe it is part mythical -- but it's the America they want to cling to.

Bashar al-Assad

America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.

Bashar al-Assad

Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.

Bashar al-Assad

America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

Barbara Mikulski

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Art Blakey

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.